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Jay Nordlinger: ‘I Like Him, I Like Him.’ I Don’t.

12th July 2018

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I have a soft spot in my heart for the National Review crowd, but this is just too stupid for words.

Just because Trump says X doesn’t mean that X is true. Nordlinger and the other pearl-clutchers of the Establishment Right have this serious psychological defect that, coming from the right-wing think-tank/opinionator realm, they say what they mean and mean what they say; as a result, they think that anybody who isn’t a Lying Democrat (of which there be many) does (or at least ought to do) the same thing. That’s not Trump. For Trump, what he says is a tool, and any correspondence between what he says, and what actually is, may or may not exist. What Trump says is what he wants you to hear, and that’s all. If you take it for more than that, then you’re a fool and he will play you like Eric Clapton with a guitar.

Trump knows more about what’s going on than you or I or even (gasp) Jay Nordlinger. He has all of the intelligence apparatus of the President of the United States at his disposal. If he does something, there’s a reason for it, and that reason is likely to be far from obvious — so to look at the obvious and recoil is on a par with a cow changing direction because a cowboy is flapping a blanket at it. Nordlinger has locked down his membership in the herd, and I find it very distasteful that supposedly intelligent people are so easily duped.

Jay Nordlinger doesn’t want a real President; he wants somebody Righteous. Ronald Reagan was Righteous. George W. Bush was Righteous. Mitt Romney was Righteous. Nordlinger suffers from the same disease as every SJW in the DemLegHump Media: They want a President who will Signal Virtue with every word he speaks and every act he takes (which is why they loved Obama so much). This is why the National Review crowd would rather have a Republican Presidential candidate who is Righteous but loses over one who isn’t and can win.

Trump isn’t Righteous. He has seen Righteous in the business world and has correctly deduced that it is a Loser. Trump is Cunning. As a result, he wins far more often than not. As President, the American people have benefited from the winning along with Trump. That’s why Trump has gotten More Stuff Done from a ‘conservative’ standpoint in two years than Reagan managed to get done in four, and is likely to continue winning.

When it comes to winning, I’ll pick Cunning over Righteous every time. People like Jay Norlinger need to go back to sucking their thumbs and leave governing to those who understand the process and can get the job done.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th July 2018

Ezra Klein on CNN: We’ve Got to Stop Covering What Trump Says  We’ll never catch that red dot! It’s a trick!

MSNBC Guest Rants: Trump Displays ‘The Least Attractive Characteristics’  And yet still more attractive than most of the DemLegHump Media. Funny how that works.

Trump Derangement Syndrome

ABC Worries Trump Is ‘Blowing Up NATO,’ Taking Problems ‘To a Whole New Level’  Certainly for the DemLegHump Media.

CNN Guest: Trump’s Base Wants To Deport Anyone ‘Darker Than A Latte’  Oh, I don’t know. I suspect there’s a lot of perfectly pink people that Trump would like to deport. I have a little list….

Colbert Pathetically Trashes Trump for Picking ‘White Guy’ for Supreme Court

Dem Congresswoman Brought Wire Clothes Hanger To Discuss Kavanaugh

Trump UK visit: Where are the protests against the US president taking place?  Be sure to reserve your place! You don’t want to miss out!

Wait, What? Matthews Condemns ‘Eight-Year-Old’ Trump’s ‘Brain Soup,’ ‘Psychobabble’  I think senility has finally caught up with Chris Matthews.

George Lopez Attacks President As He Pretends To Pee On Trump’s Star [VIDEO]  I give up — who’s George Lopez?

Toobin Likens Trump Enforcing Immigration Law to Bank Robbery, Katrina  I see that the situation is straining his vocabulary. Perhaps he ought to go back to school and learn more words.

 

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CNN Downplays Trump Admin Exposing Some Illegal Parents as Frauds

11th July 2018

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It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

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Bill Kristol Claims President Trump May Be Rooting for NATO to Fail

11th July 2018

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Bill Kristol claims to be a conservative, too.

I don’t believe either claim.

UPDATE: NATO Secretary General Praises Trump For Leadership — Trump Blasts The Media For Not Reporting It

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Stephen Colbert Admitted to Knowing Nothing About Kavanaugh So He Ripped Him Over His First Name

11th July 2018

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Really, is Colbert supposed to be funny?

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John Cleese Announces He Is Leaving Britain in Protest of ‘Awful’ Brexit Vote for Paradise Caribbean Island

11th July 2018

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‘I’m going to protest by leaving a cold wet dank ugly place for a tropical paradise.’

Wow, what a sacrifice. It must mean a lot to him.

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Schadenfreude, Kavanaugh Edition

11th July 2018

John Hinderaker at Powerline follows the meltdown.

No more affordable health care, by decree of the Supreme Court! Unions are banned! All civil rights are abolished! As we have said many times, the leaders of the Democratic Party believe that the party’s members are stupid. I am afraid they may be right.

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I Visited Whataburger, a Texas Chain With a Cult Following, for the First Time. Here’s What It’s Like.

11th July 2018

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The requirements of modern journalism are such that if you are writing anything about a state that is not one of the Deep Blue Coast states, you must take the approach of someone from civilization boating down the Zambezi river, observing the natives in their colorful native costumes doing colorful native things. Isn’t that amazing!

And, with respect to Texas, if you can sneak ‘cult’ into the headline somewhere, so much the better.

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Against XX [Updated]

10th July 2018

Scott Johnson at Powerline watches the circus pass by.

If you sense a synthetic quality to the outrage greeting the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by President Trump, you aren’t mistaken. The Women’s March had its statement decrying the apocalypse to be wrought by the nominee before he (or she) was named yesterday. Once the announcement was made, the blank name was to be filled in by the Women’s March functionary. In the event, the functionary did a poor job of executing the task, first forgetting to fill in the blank and then misspelling the nominee’s name.

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Environmentally Minded Californians Love to Recycle — But It’s No Longer Doing Any Good

10th July 2018

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The whole point of recycling is to make people feel good about themselves. The fact that nobody actually recycles anything, or that ‘recycled’ materials aren’t re-used, is beside the point.

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Chelsea Handler Says Sarah Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, Could ‘Benefit From Being Held in Cages’

9th July 2018

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I could see Chelsea Handler in a dog crate….

I’d spring for the Milk Bone.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

9th July 2018

Joe Scarborough: Trump’s Attorney Thinks He’s ‘Too Stupid’ To Face Mueller  Of course, Joe knows everything that there is to know about what Trump’s lawyer is thinking.

Protests Already Planned For Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee  Hey, if they didn’t have protests, their day would be empty.

Pro-Choice Orgs Go All In On Hysteria Before Trump Even Names His SCOTUS Nominee

ABC Hopes Dems Can Use Abortion to Block Trump Court Pick

NBC News: Trump SCOTUS Noms Show ‘Contempt’ for LGBT People  Although not half as much contempt has LGBTQRSTUV people have shown for Trump.

Actor Mark Rylance Urges U.K. to Protest Trump to Avoid ‘Disaster’  After all, protests have such a big effect on Trump.

AP Reporters Preview President’s ‘Supreme Show’ by Laying Out Trump Fiascoes and Failures  Funny how they never did that for Obama. (Bias? What bias?)

 

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Cornel West Tries to Explain Democratic Socialism to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson

9th July 2018

Read it. And watch the video if you want the raw stuff.

This piece in Salon, of course, is apologetic in nature and attempts to turn West’s vacuous platitudes into something resembling actual arguments — unsuccessfully, since you can’t make bricks with just cotton wool.

West’s tap-dancing is just a variant of the myriad of folks who explain the fact that socialism has failed every time it’s been tried with the bromide ‘real socialism has never actually been tried’. They feel justified in saying this because they believe, deep down in whatever they use for souls, that (per Marx) there is an inevitable tendency in history toward socialism that will sooner or later result in successful socialism (this is what they mean by being ‘on the right side of history’). So, whenever socialism fails, it’s because it hasn’t really happened yet.

One of the things I find most interesting about this attitude is that Nazis (if you can find one) never say ‘real national socialism has never actually been tried’, nor do fascists (if you can find one that isn’t masquerading as a socialist) say that ‘real fascism has never actually been tried’. Socialists are the only brand of statist that actually stand there bare-faced and say ‘Who are you going to believe, Marx or your lying eyes?’.

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‘Comedian’ Michelle Wolf: Abortion ‘Should Be on Dollar Menu at McDonald’s!’

9th July 2018

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I’d pay a dollar to have her aborted.

(Do you want fries with that?)

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Print, Online Press Reports Ignore or Downplay Record-Low Hispanic Jobless Rate

9th July 2018

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That might be interpreted as another win for TRUMP! and we certainly can’t have that.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

8th July 2018

NPR’s Nina Totenberg Sees ‘End of the World As We Know It’ on New ‘Hardcore’ SCOTUS  Boy, I certainly hope so.

HBO Airs Their Star Bill Maher Saying the President Behaves Like He Has a ‘Microdick’  Wonder what’s going with Maher that we don’t know about.

Avenatti Says He Is On A ‘Very Short List’ Of People Who Can Beat Trump In 2020  He’s on a short list alright but that’s not the one.

‘Meet the Press’ Panel Panics at the Thought of Trump Meeting With Putin

CNN: ‘Never’ Has There Been a ‘Love Story’ Like Trump/Fox News  I don’t know; the Clinton News Network did some sloppy kisses during the 1990s.

“Hurry the F up pressure” to Stop Trump

 

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New Yorker: Zeroth Amendment’s Supremacy Over First Amendment is Dollars and Cents Common Sense

8th July 2018

Steve Sailer has some fun.

It’s almost as if New Yorker readers are profitably assumed to be part of an ideological tribe with as strong territorialist emotions — How dare Bad Guys defile the sacred turf of Berkeley? — as Glasgow soccer hooligans beating tourists from Milan.

But if you were as lucid as, say, Berkeley professor Judith Butler, you’d understand that Good Guys are Good. The masked vigilante Antifa Black Bloc might look like thugs, but they are Our Thugs, and that’s what counts.

Berkeley’s turf is sacred not because of some principle made about Free Speech in the 1960s but because that’s where Our Team beat Your Team. And the fact that Your Team is now appealing to the logic of Our Team’s rationalization of our triumph to contest our control of our turf just proves you are the Bad Guys.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

7th July 2018

University Prof Calls Zinke A Shill For ‘White People, Christianity And His Corporate Overlords’  As opposed to most professors, who are shills for socialism, racism, sexism, and the corporate bureaucratic state.

MSNBC’s Scarborough: Trump is Going to Pick ‘The White Man’ As Supreme Court Nominee  And I’m okay with that, considering that the three women on the Court are brain-dead socialist trolls.

CNN Analyst Calls Trump Racist For Saying Maxine Waters Is A ‘Low IQ Individual’  The problem is that it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with Maxine Waters. You want a real racist, take a look at her.

Man Punched In The Face Over Trump Flag In His Yard  Funny how all the violence is from anti-Trump people, and yet supposedly Trump is the New Hitler.

Donald Trump has been scared away from London by a big balloon  Uh, yeah, right.

Roger Waters, British Summer Time review: a Pink Floyd-filled, politically charged show that took aim at Trump Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue! Rah! Rah!

The Boston Globe: Trump’s Cracks on Sen. Warren ‘a Double Scoop of Misogyny, Racism’

MSNBC Touts Misleading Claims Trump Kicking Immigrants Out of Military

18 inaccurate claims from Trump’s latest rally  Funny how they never did that to Obama, although Obama’s ‘inaccuracies’ were frequent and blatant.

 

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Former Democratic Congressional Candidate Stands by Claim She’s Given Up on White People

7th July 2018

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And yet if it weren’t for white people she would have nothing to talk about.

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Cornel West Blames U.S. for Failure of Socialism in Venezuela

7th July 2018

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Apparently Trump personally travelled to Venezuela and stole their water and toilet paper.

Really, the headline could have just said “Cornel West Blamed U.S.’ and left it at that.

Is this guy famous for anything other than being a black academic with beard explosion?

I suspect that if his name were ‘DeShawn Abdullah’ no one would ever pay attention to him.

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Snopes Writer Refuses to Acknowledge Glaring Falsehood in Fact Check on Viral Photo Of Immigrant Girl

7th July 2018

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Snopes is not a ‘fact-checking’ site, but rather just another Voice of the Crust.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

6th July 2018

Comedian On MSNBC: Trump Is A ‘Keyboard Gangster’  They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

NYT’s Manjoo Plays Left-Wing Twitter Cop Again: Should Trump Tweets Face ‘Censure’?  They wood if Twitter thought it could get away with it.

The Psychological Naïveté of Trump’s Moralistic Critics

Trump UK visit: Where are the protests against the US president taking place?  You want to arrive early to make sure of having a place.

MSNBC Mika Lectures Viewers On ‘Utterly Sick!’ Trump Admin

Man Who Ripped MAGA Hat From Kid’s Head Is Arrested For Theft  Perhaps the worm is turning.

Nancy Pelosi Accuses Trump Of Making ‘Despicable Attacks’ On Maxine Waters  No mention, of course, of the previous despicable attacks on Trump by Maxine Waters. ‘MOMMMMEEEEE! Donald hit me BACK!’

Howard Kurtz: Are Never Trump Republicans Defecting for MSNBC Contracts?  We’ve settled that, now we’re just dickering over price.

On Affirmative Action, Telemundo Declares: ‘Trump Against Minorities’  Guess they don’t read their own news, about how black and Latino unemployment are at the lowest levels ever.

Scarborough: People At Trump’s Montana Rally Were The ‘6,500 Meanest People’  And of course he’s personally acquainted with all 6,500.

CNN’s Ana Navarro: Trump Admin Sees Immigrants As ‘Second-Class Humans’  More left-wing mind-reading.

Never-Trumper Calls President’s Immigration Rhetoric ‘Ethnic Cleansers’ In Fiery CNN Debate  If so, it’s not working terribly well.’

WaPo Cartoon Uses Desperate Thai Children Trapped In Cave To Attack Trump

John Brennan Compares Trump To Bernie Madoff: ‘Remarkably Unethical’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Tim Kaine Hurls Insult At Trump After Pompeo Gives Kim Jong Un An Elton John CD  Unhinged.

Sinbad: ‘Keyboard Gangster’ Trump Is ‘Post-Dementia’ Who Had ‘Mental Deficiency’ to Run for President  ‘Sinbad? Sinbad Who?’

The Democrats Freak Out Over Jobs  Apparently having more jobs is bad news.

Man Gives His Excuse For Stealing Teen’s MAGA Hat – Cap Same As KKK Hood  Well, no, not really. Perhaps he needs professional help for these delusions.

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Why the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona is a Feminist Issue

6th July 2018

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Um … feminists are more full of bull than anybody? That’s just a guess.

Of course, these days EVERYTHING is a ‘feminist issue’. Just ask one. (Or don’t.)

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Politico: Democrats ‘Should Play Dirty’

6th July 2018

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Got news for you, guys: They already are. They always have.

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Chuck Todd: Whites Misunderstood Michelle Obama’s Not ‘Proud’ of U.S. Comments

5th July 2018

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They seemed pretty straightforward to me. Were they translated from the Ebonic or something?

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‘Morning Joe’ Makes Fun of Alan Dershowitz, Says He Deserves Martha’s Vineyard Blowback

5th July 2018

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You thought that you left high school behind, but, sad to say, they didn’t; they just went into ‘journalism’.

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‘I left the Republican Party Because of Trump, Now I Want the Democrats to Take Over’

5th July 2018

Max Boot fully turns his coat and shows his Crustian colors.

Not a great loss.

One of the most useful things about the Trump victory is that it has flushed out a number of pretend Republicans who merely affiliated with the party because it was a smaller pond and made their chances of being a big frog marginally better. (Yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, Bloomberg.)

They were always just hangers-on of the Chattering Class who could switch jerseys overnight and nobody would blink an eye.

Like Boot.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

4th July 2018

You’d think that the ankle- biters would take a day off but you’d be wrong.

NY Daily News Calls Trump A ‘Clown Who Plays King’ On July Fourth Cover

Pro-Immigrant Ad Uses Reagan And Targets Trump — But The First Four Words Step All Over Its Own Argument

MSNBC Guest: Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Will Jail Women For Miscarriages  Where do they find these insane people?

Why Trump Derangement Syndrome is so Strong  Scott Adams. Give a listen.

Trump boasted about writing many books – his ghostwriter says otherwise  Of course, nobody complained about the ghostwritten books from Obama or the Clintons.

Donald Trump banned from Sheffield by city’s lord mayor  I’m sure he’s losing sleep over it. (‘Sheffield? Where’s that?’)

The incredible silliness of Britain’s Stop Trump movement 

MSNBC Blames Trump for Detention of Asylum Seeker Jailed by Obama  What a surprise.

 

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DNC Attacks Condition of the US in July Fourth Message

4th July 2018

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The basic problem with the Demagogue Party is that they never have anything good to say about America. Their constant message is ‘America sucks, and it will always suck, but under us it will suck a bit less, maybe.’ There is always an OMG emergency, somewhere, the sky is always falling, somewhere, and we all need to do something about it right now, somehow.

I apologize ahead of time for Noticing, but to me the Chairman of the DNC looks like an illegal alien.

UPDATE: Why Do Democrats Hate America?

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd July 2018

SI Interview: Martina Navratilova Slams Trump, Pence for Making America Hateful Again  I guess the memory of her being granted asylum in 1975 from the Communist Czech regime has worn off. Well, she’s welcome to go back. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, Martina.

Woman Walks Up To EPA’s Scott Pruitt While Eating At A Restaurant, Tells Him To Resign  Hey, how about you eat your meal and let him eat his? It’s called manners. Feel free to look it up.

Tucker Calls Out Palestinian Activist Who Says Trump, SCOTUS Are White Supremacists  Let’s here it for those disgusting White Supremacists Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Cuomo Suggests Trump Refused to Lower Flags Because He Hates the Press  And who could blame him? But it’s more likely that he just hates Cuomo. (And who could blame him?)

CNN’s Chris Cuomo Slams Trump For Not Lowering Flags After Capital Gazette Shooting [VIDEO]

Trump To Lower Flags To Half-Staff After Capital Gazette Shooting  Cuomo needs to do something about his premature ejaculation problem.

Trump Supporters Boycott Walmart Over ‘Impeach 45’ Clothing   Sauce for the goose…. UPDATE: Walmart Removes Impeach Trump Merchandise From Marketplace After Outrage

Donald Trump declines request to lower flags for Capital Gazette shooting victims, says Annapolis mayor  These guys need to get their story straight.

MSNBC Guests Offer Glowing Defense of Incivility, Maxine Waters

CNN Meltdown Over Supreme Court Pick: ‘Trump the Destroyer’

Deranged Creaky Lunatic Dan Rather Claims LeBron James Chose to Join the LA Lakers Because That City Was More Anti-Trump Than Others

 

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CNN’s Toobin Fears ‘Brazen Conservative Majority’ on Supreme Court

3rd July 2018

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He says that like it’s a bad thing.

He’d be perfectly alright with a ‘brazen’ progressive majority on the Supreme Court, of course.

Dude, you lost. When you lose, bad things happen. Get over it.

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The Center for American Progress Invents a Decision by Amy Coney Barrett

3rd July 2018

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Not only was Barrett not present on the three-judge panel that rendered the verdict, but she didn’t even take her place on the Seventh Circuit until November, 2017 — five months after the case was concluded. In fact, the ruling was penned by Judge Diane Sykes — a woman, certainly, but a completely different one.

We’re sure that if she had been there she would have voted wrong, so it’s ‘fake but accurate’. And besides, TRUMP!

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The Silly Season Is Upon Us Again

3rd July 2018

Paul Mirengoff breaks out the popcorn.

I mention Brock’s allegation because it has been revived — a sure sign that the silly, albeit deadly serious, season of another judicial confirmation struggle is upon us. Off-hand comments a candidate may (or may not) have made at a party more than 20 years ago become fair game. Associates who were mentored by a candidate and who followed him from one job to another can allege, years after the fact, that the candidate engaged in sexual harassment. The allegation will enter, and very likely dominate, the debate over the nominee.

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The Generic Editorial Against Trump’s Next Pick

3rd July 2018

Don Surbur provides us with a handy generic screed against Trump’s new Supreme Court pick.

Writing newspaper editorials is an exercise in exasperating futility. They have scant impact. 243 newspapers endorsed Hillary. 20 endorsed Donald John Trump. Who won?

To those still laboring at a craft that last had impact in the 19th century, I draw upon my 27 years of experience to offer this generic editorial on whomever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court.

You may cut and paste it, and your boss will not notice the difference.

Applicable to anybody Trump might pick, including Obama.

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Nets Skip Man Arrested for Threatening to ‘Chop Up’ Rand Paul, Family

3rd July 2018

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I mean, it’s not as if he were a Democrat or a POC or somebody worth Pokemon Victim Points.

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Billionaire Richard Branson: America Should Give Out Free Cash to Fix Income Inequality

3rd July 2018

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Fine. You first.

Amazing how many ideas they have for how the government ought to be blowing YOUR money.

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Asian Americans: 10 Warning Signs That Show You’re Siding With Whiteness

2nd July 2018

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I am not making this up. (I had gotten the impression that Asians were Honorary White People for Victim Pokemon Points purposes. When did that change?)

Let’s see: According to proglodytes, white people rule the world.

Asians, do you want to side with the winners, or with the losers?

Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd July 2018

Michelle Wolf Urges People To Heckle Ivanka Trump In A Very Specific Way  You thought high school was over but you were wrong.

Jennifer Rubin: Sarah Sanders Needs A ‘Life Sentence’ Of Being Made ‘Uncomfortable’  Jennifer Rubin needs to be sent to her room without supper.

Daily Beast: Trump’s So CRAZY He Complained That The Media Would Make the Annapolis Newsroom Shooting All About Him  Which, of course, many of them did.

Prime Minister Asks Trump ‘Are They Always Like This?’ As Reporters Shout Unintelligibly  No, often they’re worse.

 

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Former NBC Exec Demands Dems Pack Supreme Court With Liberals

2nd July 2018

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Well, first they have to win a bunch of elections. That’s easier said than done.

I seem to recall that Roosevelt tried this and it didn’t fly. Can’t see it working in the Age Of Trump.

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New York Times: Conservatives Have ‘Weaponized’ First Amendment

2nd July 2018

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In a Sunday article shockingly not marked “opinion,” a New York Times reporter accused conservatives of “weaponizing” the First Amendment. The story by Adam Liptak titled “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment” made it onto the front page of Sunday’s paper and was presented as a straight news story rather than an opinion piece.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

1st July 2018

Rubin on Real Time: L.L. Bean Should Leave Maine If Susan Collins Supports Trump’s Court Nominee  Maybe come to Texas. We’ve got room.

ABC, NBC Celebrate Anti-Trump Immigration Protests, Tout Celebs and Dems  A national exercise in preaching to the choir — all of these ‘rallies’ were in places that vote Democrat, and which haven’t the slightest chance of affecting Trump or his policies. Proglodytes do love their protests.

Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly As a ‘Life Sentence’  Why? Trump cooties, of course! Didn’t you ever go to high school?

Michael Moore on Real Time: ‘Fascism Is at the Doorstep’  A VERY rich fantasy life.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th June 2018

John Legend Cussing Up a Storm About Sarah Sanders Is the Soundtrack You Need Today  Or not.

‘Nuclear war’ could provide ‘course correction’ from Trump presidency, billionaire liberal donor says

Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family

Poll:  Half of Dems fine with expelling Sarah Sanders from restaurant  Let’s hear it for the Party of Hate.

AWKS! Meghan Markle who SLAMMED ‘misogynist’ Donald Trump ‘to be royal dinner partners’

CNN Lets Guest Liken Trump Illegal Immigrant Detention to Holocaust  Because, you know, little brown people from the South are JUST LIKE THE JOOS, except for the culture and intelligence and all that stuff.

Leading Mexican Presidential Candidate Once Compared Trump To Hitler  So he’s a Democrat. Good to know.

WaPo Columnist Accuses Trump Of ‘Fomenting Violence’ Against Journalists [VIDEO]  No more so than ‘journalists’ foment violence against Trump — in fact, much less so. Beam’s in your eye, turkey.

Meghan McCain Says She’s ‘Never Going To Forgive’ President Trump For Attacks On Her Father  Maybe she could persuade her father not to be so much of a butthead.

MSNBC Suggests Trump Had a ‘Larger Plan’ to Ensure Supreme Court Vacancy  I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning…. Funny how, on the one hand, Trump is this idiot who can barely find his butt with both hands and is being led around by his staff, while, on the other, he has this Deep Dark Plot to do … something or other … but is surely FASCIST in its intent and object. I really wish these people would figure out which page they’re on.

 

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Latest Democrat to Call for ‘Replacing ICE’

30th June 2018

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More virtue-signalling by people who aren’t going to suffer from the consequences of the silly thing they advocate.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren called for the abolition of ICE during a rally on Saturday morning. “The president’s deeply immoral actions have made it obvious we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our morality and that works,” Warren said, according to The Hill.

I would agree that we ought to (not need to) rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, primarily because it is so sclerotic and bureaucratic that it takes damned near forever to immigrate legally, which is a large part of what is motivating people to ‘cut out the middleman’ and immigrate illegally. That bureaucratic tangle has given rise to a vast number of ‘abogados’, lawyers specializing in Working the System for immigrants both legal and illegal, which only makes it worse — when you’ve got a large group whose income depends on the system being difficult, they’re going to be a great stumbling block in the way of making the system less difficult. (Think tax preparers and the tax system.) This is what the slur-term Special Interest is all about.

The great flaw in Warren’s position (and that of those similarly situated) is that ‘replacing ICE’ is not the best, or even a useful, place to start. All of this ‘replace ICE’ blather is just grabbing a complex situation by whatever sticks out farthest and pretending that that’s the handle. These politicians (and the bulk of the ‘protestors’) are good examples of what Scott Adams called ‘child-like thinking’ — like children, they look at the people who are in charge and shout ‘JUST FIX IT’ as if that’s all it took.

The family-separation fracas is a very good example of this sort of thinking in practice: There are very good reasons, often having to do with the safety of the children involved and the proven fact that a lot of these children come north with people who are NOT their parents, for separating them while things are sorted out. But, according to opponents, you should just change everything immediately so that they are not separated — Hey, just sign a piece of paper and everything will be fine. Well, Trump showed them that you ought to be careful what you wish for; he ‘signed a piece of paper’, and whaddaya know, it didn’t fix it. And of course now it’s his fault that the magic didn’t happen.

These people are the intellectual equivalent of a boss who gives you an impossible task and says ‘Just do it.’ The overwhelming urge to Just Do Him speaks to the way people react to such stupidity. Do enough of that and things blow up good and proper, and that’s the direction in which we are headed.

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Liberals Connect ‘Dark Strain of Anti-Media Sentiment’ to Annapolis Shooting

30th June 2018

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Anti-Media sentiment? Maybe it’s justified!

What did this newspaper do to this guy to push him over the edge? Huh? Huh?

Maybe it’s the Dark Strain of Anti-White Sentiment that’s the cause of all of these black people getting shot by police!  Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?

We can play this game for hours….

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

29th June 2018

Jon Stewart Calls Out Trump For His ‘Gleeful Cruelty And Dickishness’  Talk about projection….

Seth Meyers To Trump: ‘Dude, Get A Therapist’  Right back atcha.

Shooting Survivor: I Don’t ‘Give a F*ck’ About Your Prayers  In that case, you aren’t likely to get any.

MSNBC’s Wallace: ‘Are You Ready’ to ‘Rip Up Some of the Rules’ to Stop Trump SCOTUS Nominee?  Of course they are.

Journos, Leftists Blame Trump For Maryland Newsroom Shooting  The fact that he won’t sit still for being insulted obviously serves as a provocation to violence.

Without Evidence, CNN Expert Tries to Blame Trump’s Media Rhetoric for Annapolis Newspaper Shooter

After Annapolis Massacre, Reuters Editor Tweets: ‘Blood Is on Your Hands, Mr. President’

Maryland shooting: Trump ducks questions over Capital Gazette killings, as president’s attacks on journalists come into focus

Michael Moore Drops Clip From New Film About Trump’s Presidency [VIDEO]  Unfortunately, Michael Moore is under the impression that he’s clever and witty rather than just snide and tedious.

Democratic Congresswoman Arrested For Protesting Trump’s Immigration Policies  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

‘You Caused This!’ Journalists Rush to Blame Trump for Newspaper Shooting, on Twitter

Lefty Radio Host to Steyer: ‘Buy Clear Channel’ and Silence Trump!  None of this freedom of speech BS!

Rob Reiner: ‘The Media is Under Attack’ Thanks to Trump  And Trump is under attack thanks to the media.

Jon Stewart Comes Out of Retirement to Attack Trump  Yeah, that’s ‘news’.

PANIC on ‘Hardball’: ‘We Cannot Allow’ ‘A Potential Criminal’ to Pick a Supreme Court Justice!  Notice all of the handwringing about what Trump might do, because they can’t point to anything that he has done.

CNN’s Avlon Says Trump Rhetoric Is ‘Ratcheting up Threats’  Yeah, threats from the Left. See Maxine Waters.

Democrats Try To Explain How They Will Stop Trump’s SCOTUS Pick  That unicorn doesn’t fart any more.

Shock: #FakeNews Media Rushes to Blame Trump for Annapolis Newsroom Shooting

Michael Moore Calls Trump ‘The Devil,’ Says ‘Get Rid’ of Electoral College  Two words: Stair Master.

Reporter Who Falsely Claimed Annapolis Shooter Wore MAGA Hat Resigns

 

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CNN’s Jim Acosta Obnoxiously Yells at Trump During Speech — Gets Shushed by People in the Audience

29th June 2018

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The people … united … will never be outshouted….

Seriously, I’m waiting for some ‘journalist’ to do something journo-listic at a Trump rally and wind up being dragged outside and having the snot beaten out of him one of these days.

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CNN’s Karem: Sean Hannity ‘Can Kiss My Big Fat Ask Me No Questions’

29th June 2018

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If you’re looking for the source of the ‘decline in civility’ that everybody in ‘journalism’ is so upset about, look no farther.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th June 2018

Obeidallah: ‘Real Americans’ Disagree with Trump Supporters on Immigration  I doubt that he knows any ‘real Americans’.

Rasmussen: 31% Think that Civil War is Coming “Soon;” 59% Fear Violence from Those Opposed to Trump

Prominent Democrats Keep Destroying Norms To Go After Trump

Kamala Harris Predicts ‘Destruction The Of Constitution’ If Trump Gets Justice Pick [VIDEO]

The hysteria next time  Mouths full of foam, hearts full of hate.

A ‘Supreme’ Meltdown On The Left

CNN Commentator Tells Jeff Flake To Have The ‘Testicular Fortitude’ To Block Trump’s SCOTUS Pick  Let’s see how much of a Flake Jeff Flake really is.

Police ‘Deserve To Die’: Anarchist Group Calls For Death To Trump Supporters And Cops

 

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Anti-Gun Activist Calls Out NRA for Annapolis Shooting Less Than Two Hours After Shots First Reported

28th June 2018

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The NRA are apparently the new Elders of Zion.

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The Supreme Court and the Wealthy

28th June 2018

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One of the great proglodyte fantasies is that they are for the Little People and the other side is for the Wealthy and Powerful, conveniently forgetting that the Wealthy and Powerful are, by and large, proglodytes.

Just one fantasy among many, but a favorite of theirs.

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